Dwindling Crew

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From Wind Thrashing Your Heart, published by Hagios Press in 2011.

ghost stories at the campfire
the key for the family cabin
is under the back step
not a soul inside but us
a dwindling crew those
who painted the rocks
brushed down endlessly
the cobwebs tore down
the illegal biffy
boiled the potatoes
mixed the drinks
planted the flowers
read the books
pointed the pier
into the circling lake
planted the tiny evergreens
now two cabins tall
ghosts thin as cobwebs
silent as a lake
without waves a tree
without a breath of breeze
we a dwindling crew